AUMNH

Our mission is to document, understand, and preserve biodiversity in order to educate people of all ages about our planet’s rich natural history.

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✨Meet Jordan✨

🌳Jordan is our GIS Analyst with the Alabama Natural Heritage Program. She maintains data on species of conservation concern.

🔥She also loves helping with prescribed burns whenever she can!

📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!

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✨Meet Jamie✨

🐊Jamie Oaks is a Curator of Herpetology. His research focuses on understanding the processes responsible for our planet’s biodiversity, using the reptiles of Southeast Asia as a model

📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!

#aumnh #auburnuniversity #cosam

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That Friday Feeling is brought to you by Bagel the Eastern box turtle on her morning adventure!

#aumnh #arboretum #cosam #auburnuniversity #fridayfeels

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⚠️Camp Registration for Curious Curators Opens TOMORROW

Register⬇️
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#aumnh #cosam #sciencematters #auburnuniversity

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Celebrating all the unstoppable women and girls from yesterday's International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔬🧪🐟🪲💪

#aumnh #womeninstem #auburnuniversity

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Happy Birthday, Auburn University! #WarEagle to 170 years 🎉🥳

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✨Meet Ray!✨

🦴Ray Willhite teaches anatomy at AUCVM and is our Curator of Paleontology. He researches
sauropod dinosaurs, alligators, sloths, and giraffes. He loves teaching and inspiring students!

📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!

#aumnh #auburnuniversity

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🐎Protohippus gidleyi lived millions of years ago in AL!

This three-toed, ancient horse shows early adaptations to grasslands. Its worn teeth helped grind plants, and its fossils tell the story of horse evolution in our state.

#aumnh #YearOfTheHorse #FossilFriday

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🪰 🐎 Kicking off Year of the Horse, insect-style!

This paratype of horsefly species (Tabanus wilsoni) was described in '62. With over 3,000 species in Tabaninae, paratypes help scientists document natural variation and insect diversity!

#aumnh #auburnuniversity #YearOfTheHorse

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Did someone say 2016??

#throwback #throwback2016 #aumnh #thowbacktuesday

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Read more about Brian Counterman’s vision for the museum ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/s9bJgapGsp

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✨Please welcome our NEW Director, Brian! ✨

🦋Brian researches how genetics & the environment shape development. He has spent decades studying butterfly wing patterns and loves combining fieldwork & lab research!

📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!

#aumnh #cosam

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Learn more about the #RedHillsSalamander and Alabama’s great salamander biodiversity by watching Southern Exposure’s documentary: #Salabama

🔗https://t.co/ek2TYRwNWe

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The Red Hills salamander lives just beneath the surface. Biologists from #ALNHP use environmental DNA (eDNA) from burrow soil to detect these threatened creatures without disturbing them—helping guide conservation!

📷1-2: Jim Godwin
📷3: Kevin Hutchinson

#FromTheFieldFriday

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📸Show us your best selfie for Museum Selfie Day!

#aumnh #auburnuniversity #museumselfieday

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⏰🐢 Reminder! Don’t miss your chance to apply for the J. Larry Landers Student Research Grant. Funding up to $3,000 supports undergrad & grad research on Gopher Tortoises & upland habitat conservation. Deadline Feb 5!
#SEPARC #GopherTortoise #StudentResearch #ConservationGrants

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✨Meet Francesca✨

🐍Our #ALNHP researcher studies Eastern Indigo Snakes & other endangered species. She loves spending time in the field with reptiles and amphibians and enjoys scuba diving, reading, baking, and traveling!

📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!

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Happy #FossilFriday!

🦴Our #paleontology curator, Ray Willhite, was featured on the Prehistoric Life Podcast doing a deep dive into sauropod limbs

Check out the full episode
🔗 https://t.co/mGaFlQBlj3

#aumnh #auburnuniversity #sauropods #anatomy #prehistoriclifepodcast

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Small beetle. Big survival skills. 🐞

As larvae, the palmetto tortoise beetles (Hemisphaerota cyanea) hide under nests made of their own fecal thatch to hide from predators!

📸1: Matt Edmonds
📸2&3: Melissa Callahan

#tortoisebeetle #specimenspotlight #aumnh #entomology

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✨ Meet Al! ✨

🌻Our Botanist has spent 30+ years studying AL's rarest plant life. He’s worked on conservation plans, monitoring and assessing plants. He enjoys photography, farming, and outdoor adventures!

📍Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!

#MuseumMonday #alnhp